Maintain photo quality

A fundamental problem with conventional photo editing software is that each time you load and save a JPEG image, it deteriorates slightly. Load and save an image more than a few times and this becomes noticeable. This cumulative distortion is unavoidable if you use JPEG format photos.

This is like, in the traditional world of printed photography, each time you want a new copy of a photograph copying the last print. Of course you'd never do this - you'd use the master negative to create the best quality prints.

The Xara Picture Editor overcomes this problem by keeping a track of the original 'master' image, much like keeping a photographic negative. When you load any JPEG photo saved from the Picture Editor, it finds the original master and uses that as the source for all further processing. It remembers all edits your ever performed to any photo and lets you undo, or alter those at any time.

First Generation Copies - always
Every time you load a photo that had previously been saved from the Xara Picture Editor, it uses the original master image. This means that no matter how many times you save - load - edit - save, you are always saving a first generation copy, just as if you'd used the negative with conventional photography.